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Also, compared to the scale of harm that Google does and the risk of it de facto controlling the web with the chromium engine, all the things that Mozilla does to piss people off should be small potatoes.

And when the cost of training LLMs starts to come down to under $1B/yr, Apple can jump on board, having saved >$100B in not trying to chase after everyone else to try to get there first.

Economic models are complex and far from perfect, and we're still waiting for Hari Seldon's psychohistory models to be created to tie together macroeconomics and macropsychology.

I have bad things to say about him. But they're firmly on pause. What Trump wants for the Federal Reserve is far worse.

And anyone who is a hard-currency quantity-theory-of-money conservative, should also be appalled by it.

Trump is way worse than what the harshest critics of the Federal Reserve think about it. Nobody right or left should support it. Only the billionaires will profit off the monetary disorder.

Trade protectionism in the USA will keep it going here.

We're going to look so backwards and "soviet" after a while.

I've got another kos-PEG implementation here as well, along with a really extensive bibliography:

https://github.com/lamont-granquist/KSP-KOS-PEG/blob/main/li...

You're more likely to get scolded here for accusing that person of being a shill/troll than to see them get removed for acting exactly like one.

That kind of neutral bias is selectively employed to protect right wing takes from getting attacked by more liberal ones.

Although, here's pg with a brief moment of insight:

https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2009219891933630925

> hardcore Trump supporters are indistinguishable from bots.

That'd get him spanked on this forum if he didn't own it.

> She was being commanded to step out of the vehicle

She was given conflicting order by different officers. One order to drive on, one order to step out of her vehicle.

Which is standard cop practice to just yell conflicting orders out and then wind up killing someone for not complying with one of them.

> and refused to do so while accelerating the vehicle quickly with an officer standing in front of her vehicle.

Cop was off to the left of her hood, and she had her wheels hard to the right and drove around him. She wasn't aimed at him. He wasn't in danger.

> then attempted to murder a police officer with her car.

This is just false information. He was off to the left of her hood, and her wheels were hard to the right. He wasn't in front of her vehicle, she wasn't driving towards him, and she wasn't trying to murder anyone.

Yeah, chef-client got a lot faster, particularly on Windows, just by liberally using `require_relative` whenever possible and sprinkling `require "Foo" unless defined?(FOO)` all over the codebase.

> Also /bin vs /sbin believe is that the latter is meant for statically linked binaries such that if your system is corrupted these at least will keep working.

I think that became the rationale for /[s]bin vs. /usr/[s]bin (although based on the linked article, that may have been retconned a bit).

You were supposed to keep your root/boot filesystem very small and mostly read-only outside major updates. That meant that you could boot to a small amount of utilities (e.g. fsck) that would let you repair /usr or any other volume if it became corrupted.

I think the other poster is correct that stuff like fsck is supposed to go into /sbin because it is a "system" binary (but also statically linked since /usr/lib isn't mounted yet) and doesn't make sense to have in user $PATHs since nobody other than root should really be running that one.

Regardless, this is all deeply meaningless these days, particularly if you are running "ephemeral" infrastructure where if anything goes that wrong you just repave it all and start over.

Bloom Energy is a growing company which is just shifting towards profitability and positive free cash flow and earnings. Those stocks are expected to have silly P/E ratios. They haven't had 2 years of declining sales.

The biggest thing that gems could do to make rubygems faster is to have a registry/database of files for each gem, so that rubygems didn't have to scan the filesystem on every `require` looking for which gem had which file in it.

That would mean that if you edited your gems directly, things would break. Add a file, and it wouldn't get found until the metadata got rehashed. The gem install, uninstall, etc commands would need to be modified to maintain that metadata. But really, you shouldn't be hacking up your gem library like that ith shellcommands anyway (and if you are doing manual surgery, having to regen the metadata isn't really that burdensome).

The more I write code in other languages where I think hard about ownership ("does this method ultimately grab the object and throw a ref onto some long-lived data structure somewhere? Then it owns it, so I better clone it") the more robust my code in other languages generally gets. Same with mutation. Generally better to make a copy of something and then mess with it and throw it away than to try to mutate-then-unmutate or something like that, even though it might in principle be nanoseconds faster. Eliminate loads of spooky-action-a-distance bugs where things are getting mutated in one spot and used in another spot, when there should have been a copy in there somewhere.

I read that as a sloppy way to say that the right lane allows turning, rather than requires turning.

Otherwise, it makes literally no sense, as you say.

Most people don't post utterly logically inconsistent ideas. Usually, they just screw up English and mean one thing when they say the other.

It is the same energy as the "you criticize society, yet you participate in society" meme. Catching someone out on their "hypocrisy" when they hit a limit of what they'll tolerate is really a low-effort "gotcha".

And it probably isn't astroturf, way too many people just think this way.

Or it is just the result of firing people who were competent and giving insufficient training to people who had never done this before.

So if you don't have a garbage collector, and you don't have manual memory management, and you don't have lifetimes... What do you have?

Read it again. They didn't say the middle lane was a turn lane.

If the right lane goes straight, you can't turn right from any other lane.

> Since COVID ...

I was noticing driving getting worse before COVID.

It is the plague of narcissism and individualism out there (which doesn't just affect "boomers" but also every millennial and zoomer that dreams of doing nothing other than becoming an "influencer" and posts their life on their Instagram).

Social media, low attention spans, cellphone and driving distractions, narcissism, and "fuck you, got mine" culture is going to wind up being to blame. It is a population-wide axis II personality disorder.

Yeah, the problem is that the tariffs are letting our carmakers just become unproductive, uncompetitive leeches on the American consumer. They're getting lapped by China/BYD.

Once BYD bulldozes the rest of the world, our domestic manufacturers are guaranteed to fail.

> Unless you’re the only deli in town.

pretty much.

back in the before times, we broke up AT&T, but we don't do that anymore.

Because "pavement princess" massive trucks driving around cities become much more common recently.

Which has resulted in trucks become more useless as actual trucks, since they've evolved into SUVs with a tiny bed you can't fit a sheet of plywood into.

It is risk aversion in low level managers, and profit margins in high level managers, and since they're the market leader in the US and smartphones are pretty mature there's little risk of anyone jumping ship (go to android, start over, lose all your apps, get differently frustrating issues).

They don't have a Steve Jobs anymore to sit down with the product, get frustrated beyond belief with it, and start sticking boots up asses on general principle.

Nobody is going to step up to do that because all the other executives would hate them for it and knife them in the back, and it would be seen as a waste of effort. And nobody could ever tie fixing those bugs to making a financial number go up, and would argue instead that it was pure cost for no benefit.

or rubygems

> I always found the Perl "community" to be really off-putting with all the monk and wizard nonsense.

Rubyists vs. Pythonistas isn't any better.

Programming languages as counter-cultural lifestyle choices is pretty "cringe" as the kids say.

A 2025 GMC Sierra 2500 is a way bigger vehicle than a 1995 Ford Bronco. 7,417 lbs vs. 4,616 lbs. and hood height of 6.6 feet vs. about 3.7 feet. And the "light trucks" category has risen to 65% of the market from 36% of the market back then. There are a lot more of them, and they're a lot bigger.

Yeah, I don't think the "release valve" is the correct metaphor. This is more like a crack around a door frame that you can get a lever into in order to eventually pry it open.

> that enables a computer to pretty effectively understand natural language

I'd argue that it pretty effectively mimics natural language. I don't think it really understands anything, it is just the best madlibs generator that the world has ever seen.

For many tasks, this is accurate 99+% of the time, and the failure cases may not matter. Most humans don't perform any better, and arguably regurgitate words without understanding as well.

But if the failure cases matter, then there is no actual understanding and the language the model is generating isn't ever getting "marked to market/reality" because there's no mental world model to check against. That isn't going to be usable if there are real-world consequences of the LLM getting things wrong, and they can wind up making very basic mistakes that humans wouldn't make--because we can innately understand how the world works and aren't always just stringing words together that sound good.